25 Saturday Aug 2018
Posted in Behind the Frames
Codex here. Just now finishing what was supposed to be the Friday comic. Sooo… It’ll go up Monday. This was our first week of homeschooling (High School) and 2nd declension Latin nouns were a challenge (among other things). 
So here by way of apology is the original concept art I made when we were deciding where to “set” Churchi. One of these days I’ll figure out how to get the scanner to handle colored pencil art (honestly, it looks pretty decent in real life) rather than just inks.
03 Saturday Jun 2017
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In keeping with The Finality, this will be my last Saturday Sketch*
It’s the design for an indy book review I was going to do… but didn’t because I gave the book away to a dragon-loving kidlet friend of the yard-ape, who kept it. Yes, I know, just write it up from my notes. Can’t find ’em. Can’t remember the title of the book. Or the author. Surprisingly “dragon” doesn’t really narrow things down as much as one would hope.
But if you ever get a chance to read an indy book about a family of dragons – two brothers and a sister – who are forced out of their territory before they’ve grown enough to defend it from more powerful adult rivals – give it a try. I quite liked it. I particularly appreciated the author’s using alien biology to circumscribe her dragons, they really were another, albeit intelligent species. The hook that kept it familiar and kept the reader sucked in was the sibling dynamics. She nailed that, too.
*Because they’re moving to Wednesday 🙂
08 Saturday Apr 2017
Posted in Behind the Frames
When the Q, Glyph, and some Animania friends were at Emerald City Comic Con, we attended an event called Monster Battle Time. Being us, we spent most of the event whispering about how to make the game more fun (we’re sooo doing this at Tosho-Con) and of course, played along.
Here’s how it works: Grab your pen & paper. Got it? Okay: in two minutes, draw a monster with 3 – 5 characteristics chosen by a random audience member. For example:
It was pretty fun at the time but when I got home, I realized the game was also a fun way to do “illustrator prompts” ala the Sunday Vignettes over at According to Hoyt blog. (They’re pretty fun, especially if you have the writing chops – or wanna be chops – to play along)
Like this:
Next Monster Art Battle prompt:
Have fun!
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